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Day trip to Bologna

Today Devin and Linda went to Orvieto and I took the high speed rail line north to Bologna.  These trips were not planned in advanced as we had left a free day in the schedule to either explore more of…

Hooked on a ceiling

The Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the great works of Michelangelo and a true sight to behold.  If only it wasn’t at the Vatican. Tour time We did another tour with the Roman Guy so that we could get…

Rome is the mob

Friday – The day of Venus.  Our morning kicked off with a jaunt across town on Roman public transport.  I’ll follow up with a post on how to get around Rome.  Our scheduled tour was of the Colosseum and the…

The five lands

I’m a little late at getting this up because we got back late, and I slept in.  Using the AirBnB experiences section of their application we booked a small boat tour of the Cinque Terre region of Italy.  Using Florence…